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in autumn, and the seed harrowed in. Four or 

 five bushels per acre is a proper portion of seed, iu 

 rich soils , hut six does better on poorer ones. 

 They suit best on turf land ploughed up before 

 the winter *, and left till this time for dibbling in, 

 which is a profitable husbandry. The farmers 

 usually sow them after other crops of corn, but 

 that praclice is always to be condemned. They 

 likewise plough for them at the time of sowing, 

 On the contrary, I suppose the land to have been 

 ploughed in the preceding autumn. They follow 

 beans or pease properly, or any ameliorating crop 

 of roots, &c. Supposing the land too wet for 

 dibbling, they cannot be sown this month ; but, 

 if the soil and the season will allow, there should 

 be no delay in getting them into the ground ; for 

 early sowing of all hardy crops, when the land is 

 dry enough, is of great importance, and many 

 times more than sufficient to balance other very 

 expensive circumstances. 



SORT OF OATS. 



The sorts of oat which chiefly demand atten- 

 tion are, 



1. Poland, which produce, on dry warm lands, 

 a very large plump and beautiful grain. 



2. Essex short smalls. This is remarkably shorty 



* The reader will hjjve the goodness to remark, that the di- 

 recYion to plough the land, at a former season, previous to sow- 

 ing, was given (however imperfectly) in the first edition of this 

 work, printed in Iff I. 



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